Hosted by Big Jon & Gus, We Eating TV vis­its San Francisco's Papalote at 1777 Fulton St @ Fulton & Masonic. Lemme tell you, from expe­ri­ence, that the food here is some of the best you'll ever eat. If you ever go, take home a jar of salsa and get it crackin. There's also a loca­tion at 24th & Valencia. You have no excuse not to pay them a visit!

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Bring some food, eat some food. Chill with some of Sacramento's best artists and maybe even do a lit­tle shop­ping.

Known also as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras, National Pancake Day dates back sev­eral cen­turies to when the English prepped for fast­ing dur­ing Lent. Strict rules pro­hib­ited the eat­ing of all dairy prod­ucts dur­ing Lent, so pan­cakes were made to use up the sup­ply of eggs, milk, but­ter and other dairy products…hence the name Pancake Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday.

Since begin­ning its National Pancake Day cel­e­bra­tion in 2006, IHOP has raised nearly two mil­lion dol­lars to sup­port char­i­ties in the com­mu­ni­ties in which it oper­ates. With your help, we hope to raise $1,000,000 for Children’s Miracle Network in 2009! http://www.ihoppancakeday.com/

When Ma Petit Bakery & Café inaus­pi­ciously soft-opened Thursday (Nov. 13), it served only a hand­ful of sand­wiches and pas­tries for lunch and din­ner. By this morn­ing, chef Nary Kim, 39, had ramped up to offer her first omelets, crois­sants and break­fast sand­wiches. Ma Petit plans to expand its offer­ings day by day until the bistro's offi­cial open­ing Nov. 24.

Located on the ground floor of downtown's Douglas Building at 3rd and Spring streets, it offers a menu of sand­wiches, sal­ads, pas­tas, grilled meats and, of course, pas­tries, that should be a wel­come addi­tion to the area's din­ing scene.

"When we were build­ing this restau­rant, we were look­ing into this area for a long time," Kim says. "Downtown L.A. is either fast food or high-class, sit-down meals, but I thought that some­thing like Ma Petit was miss­ing in this area." Read the rest of this entry »

I arrived in Oakland around 2pm and pulled up to Brown Sugar Kitchen to find quite the crowd with a few patrons on the exte­rior that were wait­ing to be seated. I just knew that after I found a park­ing spot, I was going to go inside only to find out there’d be like an hour wait or some­thing. Luckily, there was an open seat at the cor­ner of the bar just as I entered. I was seated imme­di­ately and handed a menu (cork pop!).

I didn’t have to look at the menu long before I made my choice. A pulled pork sand­wich served on a roll and topped with slaw which con­tains lime, onions and jalapeños and a side of dirty rice. After a few min­utes, I was informed by the cook that they were out of giz­zards for the rice, an ingre­di­ent I was unaware the dish con­tained, and asked me if veg­e­tar­ian dirty rice was okay. “Fine by me,” I replied.

My meal arrived shortly there­after and it was every­thing I’d hoped for. The dirty rice con­tained sautéed zuc­chini, chopped green and red bell pep­pers and some leafy green that I can­not name. The pulled pork was excel­lent and both items were spicy and very fla­vor­ful. The rice was actu­ally the spicier of the two, so I had to drink plenty of water to keep my cool.

While BSK has some items that are more expen­sive than oth­ers, this place is pretty afford­able. My meal was about $10 and there are plenty of choices on the menu in that price group. If you’re pass­ing through Oakland, live there or just wanna grab some good food to eat, then Brown Sugar Kitchen is the place for you. Picture after the jump.

Brown Sugar Kitchen is located @ 2534 Mandela Parkway, Oakland, CA 94607. Phone (510) 839-7685
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My orig­i­nal plan for today was to get up this morn­ing at 7, shave, shower and be at Midas to get an oil change between 8 and 8:30. That didn’t hap­pen. I did get up at 7, but instead of imme­di­ately mak­ing my way to the bath­room, I messed around on the web, hopped on IRC for a bit and pretty much procrastinated.

I finally moti­vated myself to take care of busi­ness and even­tu­ally walked out of my apart­ment a lit­tle after 9. I had to stop by a friend’s house to pick up the jacket I’d left there the night before and in the jacket pocket was my USB thumb drive which I needed with me while I was out today.

After pick­ing up my jacket, I drove to Midas and arrived just before 10 o’clock. I knew arriv­ing this late would increase my wait time on Saturday if I could even be fit in at all. The gen­tle­man informed me that it’d be about an hour wait because he only had two racks which he could put my car on and sure enough, both of those racks were in use.

After wait­ing a lit­tle over an hour and a half, the mechanic pulls my car into the garage and begins to ser­vice it. It only took him about 20-30 min­utes to fin­ish with my car and he informed me that he’d tight­ened a bolt on the exhaust sys­tem in the front to stop the annoy­ing rat­tling sound I’d been hear­ing for some time. I thanked the gen­tle­man, paid the minus­cule fee for dis­card­ing the used oil and hit the road, as it was now 12:30pm.

To Be Continued…